The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-27
SOUTHERN GLEANINGs.

The boiler OF the Richmond " a EapeE /
Manufacturing Compauy's mill exploded
| a few days ago with terrific violence,
| totally demolis hing the ngine house. The
| only person reported killed is Charles
Mettert. Portions of the boiler wero
| thrown hundred yards.
Miss Mary Harden, the fiancee of John
| Howard Payne, and the lady for whom he
wrote his 'sHome, Sweet Home," died in
| Athens, Ga recently. 1t IS claimed that
the original copy of "Home, Sweet Home"
/ was buried with her, it was interlined
| with love declarations from Payne which
| the lady did not wish to have fall under
the eyes of the public. She had been Of
| fered large sums for the manuscript, but
| always declined to part with it. Miss
| Harden passed her seventy-eighth year on
her last birthday.
| Miss Fulah Wilcox, Of Paducah, KY,
who re Gently lost the power of spec ch in
| a sudden and mysterious manner, has
been restored by resort to a powerful |
shock from galvanic battery.
There is great excitement among the
people of the river counties of Northern
Alabama over the big boom in ore lands.
The Birmingham (Ala.) boom continues.
Hon. E. c. Phister, a member of Con-
gress from 1878 to 1882, died at his home
in Maysville, KY, few days since He
was born in Maysville sixty five years
ago.
At Milhngton, Tenn, few days ago, |
George Millington shot and killed L. y. |
! Kennedy An old feud had existed be- /
tween them. Millington surrendered him |
self.
James Wilkerson, of Cincinnati. fell |
out of the second-stOry window at a hotel |
at Owensboro, KY, few days ago. and |
was so badly injured that it was thought |
he would die.
Willie Barnett and James Bennett, two
boys twelve and thirteen years old re-
spectively, were struck by lightning at
I. n,s
OwensborO, XIV, few days ago bar
, nett was instantly killed and Bennett sus-
tanned a severe shock. They were riding
r a couple of mules at the tims, and both
| animals were killed.
At Americus, Ga, they have spring
whose water will petrify fruits. Straw
:. berries treated this way are favorite
. kind of jeWelry.
Miss Mary Johnston, Of kentucky, has
achieved success on the London stage
The E lst Tennessee Farmers Conven-
: ton, over three hundred delegates pres
q ent, passed res olutions indorsing the pro
? hibtion amendment and pledged them
selves to use all their influence to secure
! its adoption by the people.
a Luther Hunt, living near Sulphur
= Springs, KY, was in barn on his place
- a few days ago, rubbing down a fine
= horse belonging to him. A bolt of light
ming struck the barn, utterly demolishIng
it, and killing both Mr.. Hunt and the
horse.
A Mexican breed, by the name of
Extain DeigO, was using vulgar language
at Shelby Station, Miss, few days since,
10 when the agent approached him and or
IL dered him to desist He refused, and
when the agent attempted to put him out
- Deigo drew his revolver and fired, but
III missed the agent and struck and mOrtally
wounded highly-res pected young man,
10 by the name OF Haynes. Deigo made his
escape.
I'd Near Cuthbert, Ca, a few days ago,
y. Baliff Skipper went to a negro cabin to
e. arrest Sam Snellings for the murder of
m another negro He found him lying be-
hind bed. When Snellings was ordered
at to come out, he arose with a pistol in his
as hand and opened fire. Skipper was in
he stantly killed and one of his deputies
badly wounded AS the murderer ran
en- from the house he was fire. upon and
it wounded by another deputy, but es.
e. capped.
Sc A boiler explosion, attended with terrible
all results, occurred at Wade's planning mill
ly, in Fulton, KY, a few days ago. John
N. Joscoe, a highly-respectel young man.
err was blown fifty feet against a brick
house, and 50 badly injured that he lived
NO only ten minutes. He leaves wife and
ed three children. Fred George, another OF
la. the dead, was, at the time, running the
us planer, and he was scaldcd 50 frightfully
elk that he died in an hour. He leaves wife
and baby. Henry McCleary, the coloreo
ich engineer, caused the accident by pump
lSe ! ing cold water into the boiler, Wulcn was
a exhausted of boiling water.
lot Prof. E. Lee Branton, president of the
faculty of Princeton College, died few
Or days ago at Owensboro, Ky, of apoplexy
He He suffered attack two weeks pre-
Am. viously, but had so far recovered that
ALI was thought all danger had passed, ant
he was able to be on the street
or CCaptain VIM Mu che eson, of MedOn
lie Tenn, was still living at last advic IS
ere notwithstanding it had been sixty-fv
ar. days since he had swallowe food o
drink. He has not ev31 taken nOurish
ment of anv kind, by injection or Othel
wise His is the most rem lrkable case o
sac fasting on record. He was sinking fast
zen though it was thought he might live sey
of eraI days.
u George Thomas, a brakeman in the eT-
ploy of the Kansas City, Springfield
lral Memphis railroad, was shot and MORTAL
200 wounded by freight conductor of tn
/ of same road. named Ed Black, in Yves
the Memphis, Tenn, few days ago Som
words had passed between the two whe
tho Black pulled pistol and fired with I'll
iDg above result.
= A vendetta, over a lawsuit, has been o
hand at Mason's Mill, Ky, hamlet c
rice the Owens boro & Nashville railroad, b
tween Jack Norris aud John Mason.
in eliminated a few nights ago in bait
lofe between Norris and Reub Hedden on on
ing side and Mason on the other. Mason wa
are waylaid and attacked near his house an
! he defended llnSelI WIN q k0lIe, CubBit
the Norris literally to pieces. Hedden fix
after his comrade fell, and has not bee
heard Of Mason defended himself
De we'll that he was very little hurt in I'll
is unequal battle, and public sentiment u
af- holds him.
are While forty convicts were marchu
With into the grounds of the Governors ma
lean sion at Raleigh, n. c., few days ago,
IAN go to work, four of them made a be
,ili dash for liberty in the streets of the cit
The guards began rapid fusilade wi
Winchester rifles, and the bullets few
rnal all directions William Hart, one of &
dis eonvicts was shot three times and da
the rerously wounded; Lewis Ra ford W
pro- shot through the thighs; another conv
was recaptured, so that only one escapf
Lin No Florida Senator yet
aarv Sherman Dougherty, young miner
.orv Coal Creek, Tenn, visited Jellico, or
20 | pleasure trip few days ago. He fell
I7o with Montgomery Mines, another min'
They visited a house Of ill-repute and 6
field in quarrel about one of the INN t
rion. Dougherty shot Mines through t
ar Of abdomen and started to run. Main
- raised himself half way from the floor a
- fred at Dougherty. The shot took eff
- in the spinal cord, between the shoulde
oueu Dougherty expirel in a few minut
IL OF Maines liYe1 until the next morning.
Louisville, Ky, is arranging for m
mas tary encampment and competitive DR.
Ken to be held June p 20 25.
Lt Llate GreenvilIe, Miss, is to have wa
oH works
Considera BILE uneasiuess is NANTES
an bv the planters Of Spartanburg, Gre
vile and other counties in the upper s
ratio ton of South Carolina. II consequences